Tanguy's drawings, made in 1928, were originally to have been used to illustrate Benjamin Péret's Les Couilles Enragées which, with Bataille's Histoire De L'Oeil and Aragon's Le Con D'Irène, was to have formed a trilogy published by René Bonnel. But when printer Gaston Coquette's premises were raided by police the project had to be abandoned, only to be resumed by Eric Losfeld nearly thirty years later.